🐛 PVR Recordings mixes episode name with tv show title

[Lam4hound]

Skin section

PVR and Live TV

Current Behavior

For some reason Kodi copies the value Listitem.Title to ListItem.TvshowTitle for pvr recordings.

This causes problems in all the menus related to recordings (recordings, dialog pvr info, video osd). The episode title is shown in places where the program title should be.

The same thing causes tmdb helper lookups fail for recordings because it's searching with the episode title instead of the program title.

If the program doesn't have an episode title (movies), then there is no problem.

Expected Behavior

Have the real program title visible in recordings like it is in other pvr elements (guide, channels, timers, search)

Get the artwork working from tmdb helper.

Steps To Reproduce

Go to Program guide.
Select a show that has an episode title.
Record that program.
Compare the visuals and the information of that program in the timers menu and in the recordings menu.

Press "info" on the recording.
Dialog video info shows the episode title instead of the program title.

Screenshots and Additional Info

Timers

Recordings

Dialog PVR Info

Notice how ListItem.TVShowTitle is empty for timers but gets filled with ListItem.Title in recordings.
Notice how the white title label shows the wrong title in recordings (second picture).
Notice the lack of artwork from tmdb helper in the second picture.
Episode title is shown in the upper left corner of the third picture.

Checklist

• I have made a separate issue for each bug that I am reporting.
• I have searched the issues and this bug has not been reported.
• I am using the most recent skin version.
• I have confirmed that this bug does not occur in the default skin.

[jurialmunkey]

This would need to be fixed upstream in either Kodi or your PVR addon (might be Kodi or might be PVR addon putting the title into the wrong field).

There's not much the skin can do about an infolabel having the incorrect information.

[Lam4hound]

Found these old discussion about changing the infolabels
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/16024#issuecomment-493604673
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/21706

Looks like there hasn't been any progress in changing them so skins need to do workarounds to show the correct info.

Estuary handles this by ignoring the TvShowTitle.